Platyvelia
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Heteroptera |
Family: | Veliidae |
Genus: | Platyvelia J. Polhemus & D. Polhemus, 1993 |
Platyvelia is a genus of smaller water striders in the family Veliidae. There are about nine described species in Platyvelia.[1][2][3]
Species
[edit]These nine species belong to the genus Platyvelia:
- Platyvelia alvaradana (Drake & Hottes, 1952)
- Platyvelia annulipes (Champion, 1898)
- Platyvelia beameri (Hungerford, 1929)
- Platyvelia brachialis (Stål, 1860)
- Platyvelia egregia (Drake & Harris, 1935)
- Platyvelia maritima (J. Polhemus & Manzano, 1992)
- Platyvelia summersi (Drake, 1951)
- Platyvelia verana (Drake & Hottes, 1952)
- Platyvelia verdica (Drake, 1951)
References
[edit]- ^ "Platyvelia Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ "Platyvelia". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ "Platyvelia genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
Further reading
[edit]- Polhemus, John T.; Polhemus, Dan A. (1993). "Two new genera for New World Veliinae (Heteroptera: Veliidae)". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 101 (3): 391–398. JSTOR 25010019.
- Moreira, F. F. F.; Nessimian, J. L.; Rúdio, J. A.; Salles, F. F. (2010). "New species and new records of Veliidae from Espírito Santo State and adjacent Minas Gerais State, Brazil, with notes on nomenclature (Insecta: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha)". Journal of Natural History. 44 (45–46): 2761–2801. Bibcode:2010JNatH..44.2761M. doi:10.1080/00222933.2010.512423. S2CID 84489928.
- Epler, J. H. (2006). Identification manual for the aquatic and semi-aquatic Heteroptera of Florida (PDF). Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
- Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian, eds. (1995). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 1: Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 978-90-71912-12-2.